York Historic Environment Record

A series of twelve evaluation trenches were excavated on the land around St. Everilda’s, with a further four trenches dug within the gardens of the village to the west. A total of 32 test pits were hand dug by the community throughout the village for the recovery of pottery to create a distribution map of dateable finds. The archaeological evaluation was successful in achieving a number of the aims of the project, including establishing the presence of part of the vallum monasteria, the surrounding boundary ditch which encompassed monastic sites. This ditch contained sherds of pottery dated to c. AD 450-850 and is likely to date to the Early/Middle Anglo-Saxon period. The oldest buildings lining the old main village street appear to date to the 17th and 18th centuries, and are likely to have been built on the sites of their medieval predecessors.